Let your private parts be exposed! Your genitals will be on display! I will get revenge; I will not have pity on anyone,”

Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me.

“The people of Judah are in mourning. The people in her cities are pining away. They lie on the ground expressing their sorrow. Cries of distress come up to me from Jerusalem.

They are prophesying lies to you and claiming my authority to do so. But I did not send them. I, the Lord, affirm it!’

It lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year. On that day they broke through the city walls.

I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.

I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the sovereign Lord.”

Then I said, “O sovereign Lord! They are saying of me, ‘Does he not simply speak in eloquent figures of speech?’”

“And you, son of man, groan with an aching heart and bitterness; groan before their eyes.

But she increased her prostitution. She saw men carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans carved in bright red,

Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt.

No human foot will pass through it, and no animal’s foot will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.

They were scattered because they had no shepherd, and they became food for every wild beast.

The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces north.

I heard someone speaking to me from the temple, while the man was standing beside me.

So Daniel went in and requested the king to grant him time, that he might disclose the interpretation to the king.

Daniel explained: “I was watching in my vision during the night as the four winds of the sky were stirring up the great sea.

Do not let anyone accuse or contend against anyone else: for my case is against you priests!

They have committed treason against the Lord, because they bore illegitimate children. Soon the new moon festival will devour them and their fields.